No, this isn't some horrible science fiction movie in which a normal little town gets barraged with suffocating poison smoke- this is my small townlast Monday morning during the recent cold snap.
Because the town has several bluffs around it (which has helped during windstorms), there is nowhere for chimney smoke to escape to.
Consequently, on very cold mornings, vapor can be seen pouring out of every conceivable chimney downtown, coming from not only business smokestacks, but also from the surrounding residential housing, and then settling into a haze over everything.
Even our historic city hall has a stout chimney spewing out hot smoke.Seeing this, I can't help but wonder- isn't there a law somewhere about such thermal pollution, or shouldn't there be?
Especially in light of global climate change- I really think it's time that we all put some type of scrubbers on our furnace chimneys and tapped off our dryer vents too, along the way.
I can only imagine what types of respiratory problems the people living within range of the highest concentrations of chimney smoke must be having.
Besides, is this any way to live?
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